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2024–25 Season

Bernstein and Copland

Oct 18 - Oct 20, 2024

Bernstein and Copland

Oct 18 - Oct 20, 2024

Featured Artists

David Robertson

Conductor

Nicolas Hodges

Piano

The brilliance of American dance music shines with Bernstein's dramatic Symphonic Dances from West Side Story and Copland’s sublime Appalachian Spring Suite, capturing the pulse of a generation and the serene beauty of American landscapes. 

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From the edgy energy of the street dancing Sharks and Jets and the raw exhilarating shout in the school gym’s “Mambo” to the elegantly tender embrace of first-love teens, Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story captured the pulse of a generation as it transformed Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. All of the drama and pathos, the joy and sorrow of that story is captured in his Symphonic Dances.

Contrasting with Bernstein’s brash brilliance is Aaron Copland’s sublime Appalachian Spring Suite. With its serenely lovely opening that seems to summon the sunrise over the mountain and its profoundly beautiful setting of the Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts,” it’s a portrait of a time, a place, and a people.

Program

Jolas

Lassus ricercare

Jolas

bTunes, for piano and orchestra

Bernstein

Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Copland

Appalachian Spring Suite

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